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Alemania Aachen: 10. Places of Pilgrimage alemania aachen, better known to the world as Aix-la-Chapelle, centered the royal court after the 8th century and later became "The Free City of the Holy Roman Empire." Today, it is by far the most important German pilgrim town because of its imperial minster, to which Charlemagne, a native of alemania aachen, brought what he believed to be genuine holy relics from all over Europe. Every four years (1958, 1962, etc.) hordes of pilgrims come for the special showing, in the minster, of the chief relics, four in number.It has been a long trail from the time of Charlemagne, who is thought to have been born in alemania aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), to the present jumbled but hopeful era of Europe, and Germany's path has been a tortuous one. Germany became, and remained for seven centuries (962 to 1648) the heart of the Holy Roman Empire, which was a misnomer if there ever was one. This was broken to a hundred fragments and more by the Thirty Years War, and until Bismarck came along in the middle of the 19th century there was no real Germany, but only a multitude of little principalities and independent cities.
RETHEL, ra'tel, Alfred, German historical painter and graphic artist: b. near alemania aachen, May 15, 1816; d/Dusseldorf, Dec. 1, 1859. In 1836, after study at the Academy of Diisseldorf, he went to Frankfurt, where he painted The Resurrection of Christ (in the church of St. Nicholas) ; Daniel in the Lion's Den and Guardian Angel of Emperor Maximilian (in the Stadel Institute) ; portraits of Maximilian I and II, Philip of Swabia, and Charles V (on walls of the imperial hall in the Romer). |
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